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We’ve said many times that Roddy MacLeod was and is not only an inspiration and motivator to get ResourceShelf started in 2001. Let’s review:
+ Editor of Monthly Internet Resources Newsletter
+ Developer/Leader of TechExtra
+ Founder of EEVL (now part of Intute)
+ A promoter of libraries and librarians.
+ A good person.
However, that’s not enough for Mr. MacLeod. Today, Roddy alerts RS to a new service: ticTOCs
The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for acadmics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary funder of the ticTOCs project, which will run for two years from April 2007.
Fifteen partners are involved in the project. Lead by the University of Liverpool Library, the consortium also includes Heriot-Watt University, Cranfield University, CrossRef, ProQuest, RefWorks, Emerald, Nature Publishing Group, SAGE Publishers, Institute of Physics, Inderscience Publishers, MIMAS, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open J-Gate and Intute.
From the ticTOCS Blog:
+ New journal TOC RSS feeds
From the news release:
Note how this service requires little to none knowledge of what RSS is. Smart!!!
The ticTOCS service will enable academics, researchers and anyone else, without having to understand the technical or procedural concepts involved in the process, to discover, subscribe to, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, export and re-use standardised Table of Contents RSS (really Simple Syndication) feeds and their content for thousands of journals from numerous publishers. In addition, it will facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services and others, where it can act as a showcase of the latest research output. It will also make it easy for users of library and information services, commercial and open access journal publishers, online gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to subscribe to journal TOC RSS feeds of interest, with one click, via a freely available personalisable web-based interface. ticTOCs will encourage the production of standardised journal TOC RSS feeds, and thereby facilitate their interoperability and improve the quality of their data.
The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary funder of the ticTOCs project, which will run for two years from April 2007.
The Foundations KCMU has updated its interactive Medicaid Benefits: Online Database with October 2006 survey data. This tool contains Medicaid benefits survey data from 2003, 2004 and 2006 with information about benefits covered, limits, co-payments and reimbursement. It
includes an interactive map and the ability to compare benefits data across the three survey periods and across the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories.
Source: KFF
+ American Airlines Files Suit Against Google
It’s another keyword suit. If you would like to read the full text of the American Airlines complaint vs. Google we have posted here on ResourceShelf. It was filed in the United States Federal Court–Northern District of Texas. The document runs 55 pages, PDF. The current docket is posted here.
See Also: Professor Eric Goldman’s Post (the “Go To” Person for this type of Thing) is Here
Search the lyrics of more than 300 Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.
Find the words to more than 300 different rhymes from literature’s most beloved authors - Mother Goose. Search by title or any word within the text of a rhyme. online.
Source: askSam Systems
See also: All of askSam’s free searchable eBooks & Databases
The Enterprise Analysis unit provides Enterprise Survey data on the investment climate in 98 countries, based on surveys of over 66,000 firms. Enterprise surveys measure business perceptions of the investment climate, and can be used to analyze the link to job creation and productivity growth.
Includes new Do Your Own Analysis tool:
Create your own customized tables and graphs for precisely the indicators, countries/groups, stratificaton (categorizing the data by firm size, sector, ownership, exporter), and statistics (average, count, standard deviation, minimum, maximum) that you are interested in for your own reports. Click on the picture below to get started.
Various full-text reports are also available. Extensive FAQs here.
Source: The World Bank Group
Posted 17 August 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ Soldiers Rarely Blog Information That Threatens Military Operations (Electronic Freedom Foundation)
+ We’ve Got a Gun?: Comparing Reports of Adolescents and their Parents about Household Firearms (Journal of Community Psychology, forthcoming)
+ Is Open Source Software the New Lex Mercatoria? (Scholarship at Penn Law)
All papers are PDF files. Compilations 1 ||| 2.
+ Forging Global Partnerships: Intercontinental Collaborative Initiatives between LIS Programs
+ The professional Brazilian library system and its capacity to adapt to changes: overview
+ The importance of national bibliographies in the digital age
+ The perfect match: convergence of technology and resource sharing
+ Cooperative Collection Development: Can it really be that easy?
+ Resource Discovery at the British Library: New Strategic Directions
+ Audio description text for indexing films
Source: IFLA
Thanks (as always) to TVC Alert for the info and oops to us for missing this one about two weeks ago.
Intelius, providers of numerous databases for both consumers and the business world including:
+ “People Search”
+ Background Verification and Employee & Tenant Screening
+ Property Information
+ Criminal Background Checks
have released what they call the first Cell Phone Directory. It’s free to search but full records (almost all of the data) are fee-based. See below.
Note: You can run a search (name, location) and see if a cell phone number is associated with the record. However, like we said a moment ago, to see the actual record is a fee-based.
See Also: Official News Release
Fast Facts:
+ “Enhancement” to their current phone directory services
When searching by name, Intelius’ cell phone directory checks the name and expands the search results to include other possible connections to the name entered. An Intelius cell phone report contains information on a cell phone user including owner name, address and other contact numbers. Each search costs $14.95 and allows a person to search by name or do a reverse search by a cell phone number.
See Also: Much More via The Virtual Chase including a link to the National Do Not Call Registry.
See Also: In Other Intelius News, they have been selected by MSN to be the Exclusive Provider of Data for the “White Pages” Channel on MSN.
Direct to MSN White Pages (Note the URL)
See Also: Intelius is also listed (it’s clearly labeled “advertisement”) at the bottom of the Yahoo People Search home page and results pages.
See Also: Other Players in this Area of Search Include KnowX and PeopleFinders.com.
Technorati Leadership Changes: CEO and Co-Founder, David Sifry and 8 Others Out
In a blog post titled, “A Change in Seasons,” Technorati CEO and Founder, David Sifry, announced that he is leaving the company.
Technorati will still operate as an weblog search/blogosphere buzz meter with:
+ Thresa Malo, CFO,
+ Dorion Carroll, Vice President of Engineering
+ Derek Gordon, Vice President of Marketing
operating as a group to form a committee named, “Office of the President.”
Sifry goes on to say that Peter Hirshberg is staying with the company but eight other Technorati employees are leaving the company.
Technorati can be accessed at: http://www.technorati.com
Of course, several other search tools focusing on blogs and feeds exist including:
+ Ask/Bloglines Search*
Same database, different interfaces. One thing many people like about the Ask.com interface is that each entry allows the searcher to subscribe to the feed using one of many aggregators like Google Reader and My Yahoo or post the article directly from the results page to one of many services including digg, del.icio.us, etc. Another feature is that you can sort by popularity. This takes many metrics into account including how many subscribers the feed has via Bloglines. It can be a useful way of removing spam and splogs.
* Gary is Director of Online Info Resources at Ask.com
+ BlogPulse
From Nielsen/Buzzmetrics. Both a search engine and tools to measure buzz.
+ IceRocket
Included here is the IceRocket Blog Tracker.
+ Feedster
We blogged about it on June 28th. Also worth mentioning that Feedster, an early blog/feed engine (2003) lost some of their leadership along the way. In a three month period in 2005, both their CEO and CTO/Co-Founder left. Here’s a brief Feedster timeline.
Timeline:
+ 1/2007: Co-Founder, François Schiettecatte, leaves Feedster
+ 7/2006: Feedster Gets a New President and VC From Selby Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and Mitsui & Co.
+ 9/2005: Scott Rafer Leaves Feedster (via SEW)
Here’s his goodbye post.
++ Rafer is now at a ResourceShelf favorite resource, WINKsite and blogs here.
++ 12/2005: Scott Johnson, Feedster Co-Founder and CTO Leaves Company (via Gigaom)
Johnson’s bio from 2005 is available here.
See Also: Death of Blog Search Part 2 - Sifry Leaves Technorati (via David Dalka)
Don’t Forget Using Message Boards and Forums (search/track buzz) Can Still Be VERY Useful
See Boardreader and BoardTracker.
RDA (Resources Description and Access): A new standard for digital environment
by Farshid Danesh and M.Afshar (2007)
From the abstract:
RDA as a new standard for description and access to digital resources has been designed to overcome these problems. It is based on Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR). RDA is a collection of instructions and guidelines which is used to describe and access to all
kinds of resources and media. We will introduce the new international standard, RDA, with a review of previous cataloguing rules in this article. RDA is being surveyed of different aspects as: necessities, structure, and consequence of use, characteristics, goals, strategies, revised and development processes. The outline of this standard will be introduced and surveyed properly. One of the important results of this paper is that the librarians and information scientists become familiar and aware with RDA and usage of it in libraries and scientific information centers.
Source: In Proceedings Libraries and sustainable development : perspective on the future, Sarawak (Malaysia) (via E-LIS).
++ Mobile Social Networking Has 12.3 Million Friends in the US and Western Europe
MySpace has largest mobile network in the United States and UK; MSN/Windows Live Spaces is preferred in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
++ WorldCat Registry more global with the help of national libraries (via OCLC
Direct to Worldcat Registry
See Also: Two Other Excellent Directories Of Libraries
+ Lib-Web-Cats from Marshall Breeding
+ Libdex from Peter Scott
+ meebo for iPhone Officially Released
meebo is one Web 2.0 service we find extremely useful. Key reason? It saves us and other users time, effort and aggravation. Now, if they could just deliver a version for other devices (how does a Treo sound?), we would be even happier. If you remember, we first posted about a pre-alpha version of meebo for the iPhone on July 4th. Today, the pre-alpha tag comes off. Congrats to the meebo team.
See Also: So You Don’t Have an iPhone?
See Also: What about IM for me?
See Also: See Also: Note from Gary: To access AIM on my Treo (700P), we use Toccer. It’s an inexpensive app that we’ve never had any issues with.
See Also: The Gizmo Project works not only on PC’s, Macs, and Linux sytems but also works on the Treo and several Nokia smartphones. Not only can you send VoIP calls with it (see also: SoonR listed below) but also IM with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, iChat, and Jabber.
See Also: AOL AIM via AOL and AIM for Blackberry.
See Also: Yahoo Messenger via Yahoo Mobile
+ MSN Messenger (Client) ||| Web Site
+ Skype Chat is available via this Windows Mobile Clients or via a service like SoonR.
Btw, various wireless carriers provide direct access to some IM services.
See Also: AOL AIM via AOL and AIM for Blackberry.
See Also: Yahoo Messenger via Yahoo Mobile
+ MSN Messenger (Client) ||| Web Site
+ Skype Chat is available via this Windows Mobile Clients or via a service like SoonR.
Btw, many wireless carriers provide direct access to some IM services.
Regardless of the service or client, information professionals can use tools like meebo and some of the other ones listed to assist users wherever they are located. Let’s call it mobile virtual reference. Of course, one could always call the library and literally talk to a librarian but 1) that’s not always possible and some would prefer to interact via IM. That said, once the initial verbal conversation is complete, mobile IM might be just the tool that’s needed to continue the conversation, alert users to items being sent via email, etc.
Statistics: U.S. VoIP Market Share
The top seven consumer VoIP providers in the United States at the end of mid-2007 included the five largest cable operators in the country.
Includes Pie Chart.
Top Seven Companies:
+ Comcast
+ Time Warner
+ Vonage
+ Cablevision
+ Charter
+ Bright House
+ 8×8
Source: TeleGeography (via Fierce VoIP)
See Also: TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate (Free)
Databases: Michigan: Health: State hospitals are to list prices online
In January, Michigan’s nonprofit hospitals will begin to list prices for at least 50 common medical procedures in answer to consumer and business demands for more information on rising health care costs.
The Michigan Health & Hospital Association, which represents the state’s 146 nonprofit hospitals, will sponsor a voluntary hospital price database on the association’s Web site, www.mha.org.
Source: Detroit Free Press
TR35, 2007 Young Innovators Under 35
Included on the 2007 list are:
+ Luis von Ahn (Book Digitization)
+ Anna Lysyanskaya (Online Privacy)
+ Sanjit Biswas (Meraki Networks)
+ Jeff LaPorte (Eqo Communications)
Source: Technology Review
This interactive resource offers several databases:
+ Interactive Jewish Calendar (from the year 0000 to the Present)
Export to Palm, Outlook, and iCal.
+ Date Converter
+ Sabbath Candle Lighting Times for Around the World
In the U.S., simply enter a Zip Code. Info is also available as an RSS feed.
+ Jewish Holiday Dates
+ Yahrzeit, Birthday, and Anniversary Calendar
+ Torah Readings
See Also: Mac Users: Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
Source: Hebcal (Thanks to Barry S. for the news tip)
See Also: Calendar Zone
A long list of interactive calendars.
According to The NPD Group mobile phone sales to consumers in the U.S. reached 33 million units in the second quarter of 2007. This number represents a decline of nearly 17 percent compared to unit sales during the previous quarter; however, the second quarter is traditionally a slow sales quarter for mobile phone retailers. NPD estimates total second quarter 2007 consumer sales of $2.4 billion, which is a 14 percent increase since the same period a year ago.
The top five handset manufacturers remained the same this quarter as last. Following is the breakdown of the top five manufacturers’ second quarter 2007 share of units sold:
Motorola 32%
Samsung 18%
LG 17%
Nokia 10%
Sanyo 4%
Source: NPD
+ Chris Boggs Heads to Cleveland (via Search Marketing Thoughts)
Chris is not only a great guy but also a friend of ResourceShelf. Boggs is a VIP on the search engine optimization (SEO) food chain when it comes to knowledge of the topic. SEO is a topic info pros should (no, must) know about and understand because it can not only make someone a better searcher but understanding the business of web search is very useful. Chris would be a great speaker at Cleveland area librarian events. We wish him well in Cleveland and as Ian Hunter says, “Cleveland Rocks.”.
Posted 16 August 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ Resale of recalled children’s products online: an examination of the world’s largest yard sale (Injury Prevention)
+ Implications of Wildlife Trade on the Movement of Avian Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases (Journal of Wildlife Diseases)
+ How to not get tricked by staging — and potentially save $5,645 when you buy your home (National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents)
Resources of the Week: Global RSS Feeds
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
Though most of our readers do come from North America, we also realize that we have an international audience for ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. So we make it a point to include items of potential interest to folks beyond our immediate borders — at least English-speaking folks, since we are basically monolingual here, alas. Thus, we’re always on the lookout for RSS feeds that may alert us to worthwhile content in or about other nations. With that in mind, here are a few good fishing holes for you to consider.
Stay connected to important global development issues by subscribing to World Bank RSS feeds. The feeds include updated World Bank news as well as new project information and documents.
There is an individual feed for each country in which the World Bank is doing work. Or you can subscribe to regional feeds for Africa, East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, South Asia. By poking around the World Bank site, we’ve unearthed a few other feeds:
+ World Bank: Independent Evaluation
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World Bank; it reports directly to the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors. IEG assesses what works, and what does not; how a borrower plans to run and maintain a project; and the lasting contribution of the Bank to a country’s overall development.
+ World Bank e-Library - New publications online
Welcome to the World Bank e-Library, an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,500 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.
We bring you timely news, resources, tools, ideas and commentary on poverty related issues.
+ Private Sector Development Blog
The Private Sector Development Blog (PSD Blog) gathers together news, resources and ideas about the role of private enterprise in fighting poverty. The blog is informal and represents the quirks and opinions of the bloggers, not the World Bank Group.
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RSS Feeds from the UN News Service
Offered here are individual feeds grouped by region (Middle East, Africa, Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific) or subject (Health, Poverty, Food Security, UN Affairs, Law/Crime/Prevention, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid/Refugees, Environment/Shelter, Culture/Education, Economic Development, Women/Children/Population, Peace/Security). Or for a broader view, subscribe to the UN News Centre - Top Stories feed.
If you’re one of our regular readers, you already know we are big fans of the UN Pulse weblog, from the UN’s New York-based Dag Hammarskjöld Library, which “alerts you to selected just-released UN online information, major reports, publications and documents.” This blog’s feed definitely belongs in your aggregator.
There are plenty of other feeds scattered around the UN’s network of sites. A quick search turned up these:
+ UN Comtrade Data Availability by Date of Loading — Offers “the latest uploaded trade data” in the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database.
+ A few feeds from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
+ Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : Recent Reports
+ Communication and Information News feeds from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
+ United National Population Fund feeds: Feeds for news or publications
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EUROPA: Rapid Syndication
This page lists a large selection of European Commission RSS feeds, however I could not get any of the RSS links to work with either Firefox or Safari on my MacBook Pro, even when I tried the “Bloglines Sub” bookmarklet. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
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UK Office of Public Sector Information
Operating from within the National Archives, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is at the heart of information policy, setting standards, delivering access and encouraging the re-use of public sector information. OPSI provides a wide range of services to the public, information industry, government and the wider public sector relating to finding, using, sharing and trading information.
Individual feed available here include: UK Acts, UK Statutory Instruments, Acts of Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Orders in Council, Northern Ireland Statutory Rules, Acts of Scottish Parliament, Scottish Statutory Instruments. I wish there were feeds for current parliamentary reports and House of Commons Library Research Papers; alas, it looks like e-mail alerts only.
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+ Parliamentary Library Web Site Publications (Australia) — Feeds include: Bills Digests, Research Papers, Background Notes, Monthly Economic and Social Indicators (MESI). Find other Parliament of Australia feeds here.
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The Canadian Library of Parliament offers a feed for its new research publications. For information on legislation currently before Parliament, LEGISinfo offers feeds.
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Many international organizations, NGOs and think tanks offer RSS feeds; a few from my own aggregator:
+ Amnesty International: Most Recent English Reports from the US Section of Amnesty International.
+ International Crisis Group — feeds by region and subregion.
+ INTUTE Social Sciences Blog (INTUTE, as our regular readers know is an online service by “a network of UK universities and partners”which highlights quality Web resources in different subject areas.)
+ Winspear Business & Economics News with a Canadian Twist from the Winspear Business Reference Library at the University of Alberta
+ World Wildlife Fund News
The Access to Archival Database collection is home to many searchable files of content from the National Archives and Records Administration. In total, the help guide says that at the present time more than 85 million historic electronic records are already online. So, which database files are people accessing? Here’s a list of the top five.
Access to Archival Databases (AAD): Most Popular Database
World War II Army Enlistment Records
Records on Korean War Dead and Wounded Army Casualties
Records of World War II Prisoners of War
Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine
Records on Military Personnel Who Died, Were Missing in Action or Prisoners of War as a Result of the Vietnam Conflict
See Also: What’s New: The Latest Databases Made Accessible via AAD.
When The Licensor Calls: Some Thoughts On Systematic Downloading
by Andrew Waller (2007)
4 pages; PDF.
This article presents a brief discussion of systematic downloading of licensed electronic content in libraries. Basic information about systematic downloading is given along with some questions that the author feels merit further examination plus a short list of related resources.
Source: Informed Librarian (via e-LIS)
See Also: Additional Papers by Mr. Waller Available via e-LIS
Webcast: Peter Brantley Talks to Talis
Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, Peter Brantley is the guest on this Talking with Talis podcast. Speaking to Richard Wallis from the Berkeley campus in the San Francisco bay area, Peter talks about his background and the activities and role of the Federation before moving to the challenges of libraries in the digital world.
The interview runs 34 minutes.
See Also: Peter Brantley Appointed DLF Executive Director
Source: Talis
+ CARL and SPARC offer Canadian authors new tool to widen access to published articles (via SPARC)
+ Will ‘SmartAds’ Give Yahoo An Edge In Online Display Advertising? (via SEL)
Note: The full text of the WSJ story referenced in Greg Sterling’s post is available here at no charge, no sub required.
+ Why Google Inspires Diverging Case Studies (via WSJ, Free, No Sub Required)
National Libray of Australia Acquires eye-witness records from Burke and Wills expedition
The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce it was the successful bidder for an album containing two original pictures from the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860–1861.
The album, which sold at this evening’s Bonhams & Goodman auction in Melbourne for a hammer price of $240,000, will shed new light on a great Australian story.
The two drawings in the album both dated 1861, are by William Hodgkinson, a literary editor with The Age, who joined the Burke and Wills expedition at Swan Hill in 1860.
See Also:
The National Library already has a number of Burke and Wills items including the diaries of William John Wills 23 April – 28 June 1861(at http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/wills/ ) and John O’Hara Burke 16 December 1860 – 20 January 1861. The Library’s pictures collection contains works depicting aspects of the expedition by William Strutt and Nicholas Chevalier, as well as works by Hodgkinson from a later expedition.
Source: National Library of Australia
International report on library and information services for visually impaired people
Key findings of report include:
- international comparability remains limited by a lack of consistent or comparable quantitative evidence of performance and varying definitions of user groups served
- legal frameworks in Canada and Denmark allow specialist library and information services to serve a much wider range of print impaired people than visually impaired people
- copyright restrictions are the most frequently cited barriers, along with funding levels
- most respondents favour a system which is delivered as much as is possible via mainstream physical and digital channels worldwide; and with clearly defined responsibilities, whether these are fulfilled by private, voluntary or public bodies
- regular government funding is considered to produce the best outcomes for users and most respondents consider that relying mainly or purely on voluntary sector funding is inadequate to meet need
- changes in technology and in society could leave people who are unable to read conventional print worse off, if the moment is not seized.
+ Part I: Summary Report
+ Part 2: Country studies
+ Part 3: Appendices
New Tennessee Archive-It Collections Hit the Web
The Internet Archive’s Archive-It service continues to debut
new permanent archival collections of web pages and sites. Here are a few new ones since we posted our last update. This time the collections all began with the help of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Here are a few of the many Tennessee collections.
+ Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the Department of Energy?s largest science and energy laboratory. Managed since April 2000 by a partnership of the University of Tennessee and Battelle, ORNL was established in 1943 as a part of the secret Manhattan Project to pioneer a method for producing and separating plutonium.
TVA is the nation?s largest public power company, with 33,000 megawatts of dependable generating capacity. Through 158 locally owned distributors, TVA provides power to about 8.7 million residents of the Tennessee Valley.
UT Center for Business and Economic Research
CBER, a department within the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, conducts research on national and state economic trends for UT Knoxville, state agencies, and public and private organizations.
+ C.H. Nash Museum and Chucalissa
The C.H. Nash Museum and Chucalissa support diverse undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Memphis. The museum and its associated educational programs provide training opportunities for students in the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program.
+ Appalachian Regional Commission
The Appalachian Regional Commission is a federal-state partnership that works with the people of Appalachia to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.
+ Film, Entertainment and Music Commission
The purpose of the Tennessee Film Entertainment & Music Commission is to promote and facilitate economic development of the film/music community through the recruitment of business; promoting Tennessee as a location in feature films, television productions, commercials, and other works…
+ The Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI)
An agency of the State of Tennessee established in 1986 by the General Assembly and dedicated to responsive public service, strives to facilitate intercultural communication through the provision of quality language instruction, translation and interpretation services, professional development for interpreters, translators and language instructors, and cultural awareness programs, which are designed to meet the needs of the state government and its employees, the business community, foreign language educators, and the public at large.
+ Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
The Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology, founded in 1984, is a component of the Department of Art of The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee (USA), and is a Tennessee Center of Excellence.
National Parks Service-Tennessee
Most people know that the National Park Service cares for national parks, a network of nearly 400 natural, cultural and recreational sites across the nation. The treasures in this system - the first of its kind in the world - have been set aside by the American people to preserve, protect, and share, the legacies of this land.
+ Tennessee Institute of Public Health
The Tennessee Institute of Public Health will promote multi-sector activities resulting in measurable improvements of public health structures, systems, and outcomes.
+ Tennessee Economic Council on Women
The Economic Council on Women is a State agency created under TCA - 4-50-100, et seq. by the One Hundredth General Assembly in 1998 to address the economic needs of Tennessee women.
Tennessee Commission on Holocaust Education
Dedicated to furthering the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance.
+ Near Real Time Driving Time for the Entire Bay Area (Text only)
Predict-a-Trip is a feature of the 511 Traffic page that provides typical travel time and speed information for user-selected driving times routes based on historical information. You simply select a driving times route and then select the day of the week and time of day for which you are interested in receiving typical travel times and speeds. Predict-a-Trip helps you plan your driving time IN ADVANCE or your trip. Use Predict-a-Trip for out-of-the-ordinary trips, like dinner at a new restaurant on a Friday night or an early-morning flight out of SFO on Wednesday. If you’re thinking of moving to a new part of the Bay Area, Predict-a-Trip can help you estimate the typical morning and evening commute.
See Also: 511 Services Around the U.S. (Directory)
+ Science.gov Spelling Suggestion Tool Adds 100,000 Terms
+ Critical Mention Offers First Real-time Radio Monitoring Platform to Customers
See Also: Critical Radio
Note: From the searcher perspective, we’ve noticed that TVEyes offers access to radio monitoring (transcript search) for stations in New York and the UK.
+ Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books (via First Monday)
+ Canada: Exclusive to Rogers: MySpace for mobile phones
+ Facebook Launches Amazing New iPhone Application
See Also: Official Facebook Blog Announcing New App
+ Skype for the iPhone (via PC World)
See Also: SoonR: Skype and More
See Also: JaJah Mobile: Requires No Download. Very inexpensive international calls.
New: Historical Maps: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase
This presentation focuses on the various documents—from maps to newspapers to cultural artifact—that help to describe the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is now the state of Montana. The 119 items presented here come from the various special and general collections of the Library of Congress.
Source: LoC
Full Text e-Books: PublicLiterature.org
+ Some audiobooks are also available. You can also embed audio books on a web page.
See Also:
+ Online Books Page
What’s Been Recently Added to the Online Books Page
This month’s collection features many of the earliest and most important historical photographs representing the exploration of the American west. The locations and photographers include mammoths views of Yosemite Valley by Carleton E. Watkins and Charles L. Weed, the route of the Union Pacific Railroad through the Rocky Mountains by A.J. Russell, and others. This image (Digital ID: 435071), entitled “The Valley, From The Mariposa Trail,” is from Charles L. Weed’s Yosemite views (1864).
Source: New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Lists & Rankings: Travel & Leisures World’s Best Awards
As voted on by T&L readers.
Categories:
+ Hotels (overall and by region)
+ Islands (overall and by region)
+ Cities (overall and by region)
+ Airlines, Cruise Lines (by size), Tour Operators, Car-Rental Agencies.
See Also: Methodology
See Also: News Release
Source: Travel & Leisure
America’s Most Endangered Places 2007
Each year since 1998, the National Trust for Historic Preservation (www.nationaltrust.org) has released a list of 11 historic sites across the country that are in danger of being lost forever. Inclusion on the list does not guarantee a site’s survival, but it does generate publicity for the locations and in many cases leads to increased conservation efforts.
Source: Infoplease.com
Posted 15 August 2007 on DocuTicker:
+ Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat (New York City Police Department)
+ What prosperous, highly educated Americans living in Canada think of the Canadian and US health care systems (Open Medicine)
+ Consumers Pay Hefty Premium for Air, Packaging in 100-Calorie Packs (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
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